PRIDE 2024 - Migrants' Rights Network
Pride is about justice and liberation, not about inclusion into systems that were designed to be oppressive.| Migrants' Rights Network
This page includes two resources for international students: a guide on education and a guide on private renting.| Migrants' Rights Network
Pride is about justice and liberation, not about inclusion into systems that were designed to be oppressive.| Migrants' Rights Network
We must interrogate the harmful systems that create and exacerbate vulnerability, so that we can collectively tackle the root causes that expose people to risk or harm.| Migrants' Rights Network
After a series of successful online events which explored the intersections of different identities with migration status, we have expanded this work into a wider campaign. Building on the themes explored in the Who is Welcome event series, which included the relationship of racism, Islamophobia and queerness with migration, we are pleased to launch the […]| Migrants' Rights Network
Be Gay, Do Rage – Pride 2025 Manifesto| Migrants' Rights Network
Anduril Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs) are scanning the Channel for people seeking safety on the South-East Coast of England.| Migrants' Rights Network
Sev: Why I chose to fundraise for MRN| Migrants' Rights Network
Words Matter Divisive rhetoric has become the norm, simple narrative change isn’t enough anymore. Disinformation is rampant and the far-right are mobilised. We need to shift our approach. Read more Who is Welcome? Migration is not a siloed issue. We must understand and be honest about who harmful migration, including asylum, policies are aimed at, […]| Migrants' Rights Network
Covid-19 has created an unprecedented crisis and response for all affected in the UK. Yet, the government’s response has still managed to let down those most vulnerable and at risk i.e. migrants, because they do not have access to a safety net, and are being forced into destitution and hardship. From 16- 22 June 2020, […]| Migrants' Rights Network
While the Government has decided to accept the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) recommendation to retain the Graduate Visa Scheme (GVS), it has also announced a number of restrictions on international students. This includes ensuring that face-to-face teaching is the primary mode of teaching, restricting remote learning. Before the pandemic, the visa rules for international students […]| Migrants' Rights Network
We have written an open letter to Teeside University, to express our shock at their treatment of international students.| Migrants' Rights Network
We are relieved that the Gov is no longer scrapping the Graduate Visa Scheme but we have heard from members of our Network that the GVS is restrictive.| Migrants' Rights Network
The Migration Advisory Committee have published a review on the Graduate Visa, finding no evidence of abuse in the scheme.| Migrants' Rights Network
Governments create the unsafe route and there is universal 'safe' country. Nowhere is truly safe: it's all relative.| Migrants' Rights Network
"Legitimate concerns" about migration are thinly veiled racism and enable racism and echoing the far-right.| Migrants' Rights Network
The term 'genuine asylum seeker/refugee' undermines legitimacy of an asylum claim before it has been submitted.| Migrants' Rights Network
Decolonisation means we must interrogate not only the role of colonialism in borders, but also the relationship of colonisation and capitalism. Border regimes are where race, nationality and capitalism meet: they cement Global North/South apartheid and broker deals based on moving and restricting racialised bodies between territories. Border and immigration structures are a mechanism to […]| Migrants' Rights Network
On 22nd July 2025, changes to the Immigration Salary List (ISL) were introduced as part of the Government’s Immigration White Paper reforms to the immigration system in the UK. Included in the latest changes were the abolition of the ISL and the introduction of a Temporary Shortage List, however the ISL still exists in a […] The post Immigration White Paper Skilled Visa Salary Changes Come Into Force appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
We firmly oppose the new UK - France deal in its entirety. People are not goods to be exchanged between states.| Migrants' Rights Network
Statement: citizenship deprivation + the “good character” requirement| Migrants' Rights Network
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (a.k.a. Border Security Bill) is going through Parliament. Ask your MP to vote against it.| Migrants' Rights Network
Counter-terrorism powers are creeping into the UK immigration system. Through our Hostile Office campaign, we want to understand how.| Migrants' Rights Network
The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill brings oppressive counter-terrorism powers into immigration.| Migrants' Rights Network
Immigration Raids Case Study: The Irish Sea and Common Travel Area (CTA)| Migrants' Rights Network
The Government has announced the first changes to be introduced from the Immigration White Paper. These changes concern increases to required so-called skill and salary thresholds, including limiting shortage occupations that people can be sponsored to fill. The Government claims this is to “restore control of Britain’s borders”, but these arbitrary adjustments look more like […] The post Hostile Office Weekly: Immigration White Paper Rollout appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
Belfast has continued to be the largest hotspot for immigration raids, far outpacing the number of raids in all other areas that we have data for (see our 2024 report here). This has not changed. Similarly, Birkenhead and Stranraer have remained in second and third place, quite ahead of anywhere else in Britain. As part […] The post Immigration Raids Case Study: The Irish Sea and Common Travel Area (CTA) appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
Last week, the Government expressed intent to change the policy around deprivation of citizenship, to lessen the rights that people who have wrongly had their British citizenship revoked are entitled to during the appeals process. The Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill was put before Parliament on 19th June, with the first vote […] The post Hostile Office Weekly: Deprivation of Citizenship Orders Bill appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
Transphobia is rife in the immigration system which presents specific additional struggles for non-binary migrants.| Migrants' Rights Network
As a migration charity, we are very vocal about attacks on other marginalised groups because migration is not a siloed issue. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, a number of queer and trans+ migrants in our Network have expressed their distress about the verdict and […] The post What does the Supreme Court ruling mean for trans+ migrants? appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
As a migrants’ rights organisation, we stand in solidarity with those facing criminal proceedings for resisting removals. In May 2024, at the request of those at risk of being forcibly removed from their hotel, members of the community came together to resist people seeking asylum being transferred to the now-decommissioned Bibby Stockholm barge from the […] The post Peckham: one year on appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
Recent weeks have seen the possibility of the Government acquiescing to former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s dreams of introducing digital ID, while the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended against further increases to the family visa income threshold. Digital ID cards Home Secretary Yvette Cooper appeared to come round to the idea as a response […] The post Hostile Office Weekly: Digital ID and Income Thresholds appeared first on Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
Ahead of our Words Matter campaign relaunch, our CEO has penned a letter acknowledging we haven't done enough to tackle anti-migrant rhetoric| Migrants' Rights Network
We stand in solidarity with the people of the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland and call on others to join our call.| Migrants' Rights Network
Dear supporters, May was another month where migrants’ rights came under attack in the form of the new Immigration White Paper This time, the Prime Minister tried to justify another round of harsh immigration proposals in an already infamous ‘island of strangers’ speech – a nod to Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ tirade. The Immigration […]| Migrants' Rights Network
With Syed Naqvi and Sonali Naik KC, we have compiled a factsheet on ‘Nationality: good character requirement’.| Migrants' Rights Network
For Pride Month 2025, Migrants' Rights Network's queer staff have written a manifesto in the wake of attacks on migrant and queer communities| Migrants' Rights Network
In this Hostile Office Weekly, we've summarised a report on vulnerabilities, an overview of the latest immigration statistics and the EU deal| Migrants' Rights Network
A member of our community shares their reaction to the Government's proposals to ban international student visas from certain nationalities.| Migrants' Rights Network
As part of our Gender, Queerness and Migration campaign, we've teamed up with Nisaba to talk about period poverty and the Hostile Environment| Migrants' Rights Network
As a majority queer migrants' rights charity, we're harnessing the power of communities to mobilise collective liberation.| Migrants' Rights Network
For the first time, the Home Office has announced that it will be publicising the nationalities of foreign national offenders (FNOs). We must challenge the dog whistle politics that attempt to manufacture a link between nationality, religion, ethnicity and criminality, and that attempt to present criminality as something exclusively inherent to “incompatible cultures”. In the […]| Migrants' Rights Network
Dear supporters, We need to have each other’s backs now more than ever. On 25 April, a hotel in Whitechapel housing people seeking asylum was emptied. More than 300 residents were moved to locations across London and beyond with minimal information and less than 24 hours notice. There was a lot of confusion and fear, […]| Migrants' Rights Network
There's a lot to unpack in the UK Government's new Immigration White Paper. So, we've pulled together a summary of the changes.| Migrants' Rights Network
Online meeting- 17 May 2025, 11am The proposed changes announced in the Immigration White Paper on Monday have unsettled many migrants. What they expected when they came to the UK, and how this will now change has created a lot of uncertainty. The proposals are widespread but the significant changes will include: Along with our […]| Migrants' Rights Network
The Government's new Immigration White Paper is a populist exercise that will cause even more misery for migrants.| Migrants' Rights Network
The Government's clamp down on international students claiming asylum from certain nationalities is discrimination.| Migrants' Rights Network
Hi! My name is Sev. I will be running in the London Marathon and so far, I've raised about £1,500 for the Migrants' Rights Network.| Migrants' Rights Network
MRN is proud to host a film screening featuring two groundbreaking films investigating violence and technology on the border:| Migrants' Rights Network
The Home Office and UK immigration system are racist by design. Find out how we're challenging it.| Migrants' Rights Network
The Hostile Office International Students An often overlooked area of migration are international students. This is due to their position as students, associated with temporary migration, or assumptions surrounding significant wealth. Following on from research we conducted on COVID-19 lockdowns and destitution, and from subsequent engagement with international students on specifics they have raised, we will […]| Migrants' Rights Network
The stories of BIPOC non binary people are the stories that we must be centering, since gender cannot be understood without race.| Migrants' Rights Network
The good character requirement has been updated on 10th February 2025 to block some refugees from naturalising as British citizens.| Migrants' Rights Network
We are incredibly alarmed about the introduction of a counter-terror approach to migration in the form of the Border Security Bill.| Migrants' Rights Network
The interim changes brought in to the policy governing the treatment of trans+ people in immigration detention embeds misgendering and transphobia.| Migrants' Rights Network
There are a number of ways in which the new Renters’ Rights Bill will positively affect you as international students.| Migrants' Rights Network
In 2025, we remain dedicated to migrant justice, to understanding the root causes of displacement, and to defying misinformation and anti-migrant, racist narratives.| Migrants' Rights Network
Penny and Siobhan raised £1465 for MRN by undertaking the Edinburgh 7 Summit Challenge. They tell us about their choice to fundraise for us.| Migrants' Rights Network
As part of plans to digitise the UK border, physical documents will be placed with a digital immigration status called eVisas.| Migrants' Rights Network
Migrants' Rights Network, Migrants at Work and Open Rights Group's Challenge the Checks campaign is calling for an end to right to work.| Migrants' Rights Network
A collaborative day to collectively organise and learn from grassroots organisations around decolonising, abolition and anti-racist practice.| Migrants' Rights Network
